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Originally Posted by bombaysaffires
Stevie began working out her songs with other people right after she and Lindsey broke up. She realized that relying on him for that created a real power imbalance,
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They seemed to have moved past that by the time she got involved with SYW. She and Lindsey seemed to be in a better place.
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As you could see in her film with Dave Stewart, Stevie evolved into wanting and getting more control over the arrangement of her songs over time and that's been the case even when working on solo albums with Jimmy. That's why they would argue in the studio.
So I wasn't at all surprised that she brought fleshed out demos to the band. She had clear ideas about how she wanted those songs to go. She's not obligated to give him a raw songwriting demo. They're her songs. As a producer he should respect how the writer wants a song to go-- in fact that's exactly the job of a producer, to help an artist get their vision out to the world.
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The flip side of that coin is that TITN and especially SYW began life as Lindsey solo projects, so why should he have to change
his vision and interrupt the continuity of a project he (and the others) had been working on for five or six years before she got involved?
And, what about Mick and John? Should they have to be beholden to Stevie’s demos? They’re artists, too, and it’s
their band. John is as passionate/territorial about his bass lines as Stevie is about her songs. John gets especially offended with writers coming in with completed demos, and will demand they come back with the bass taken out of the mix. Fleetwood Mac is a band, and everyone has his/her input on the songs. What might be completely reasonable and necessary for her solo career won’t necessarily fly with Fleetwood Mac.
I suspect that’s why Lindsey wanted to start what he’d hoped would be the next album from scratch with Stevie.